More reviews have come in for the new Ellen Datlow anthology, Inferno, which features my story Hushabye.  What I was most surprised to discover was that, even though Ellen’s probably the leading horror anthologist in the US, this is her first non-themed anthology.  More than one reviewer is basically suggesting Inferno is a ‘state-of-the-art’ anthology, showcasing not just what’s best in the genre right now, but what the genre’s about.  I was proud enough just to get into the damn thing- now I’m feeling stunned.  



Anyway, as well as the first review by the wonderful Denise Dutton, Inferno is also reviewed by Paula Guran in Fantasy Online and the anthology has made Publisher’s Weekly’s best of the year list.

The Library Journal Review is below:



Holiday Horror Reads



 Dark Delicacies II: Fear. Carroll & Graf. Oct. 2007. c.288p. ed. by Del Howison & Jeff Gelb. ISBN 978-0-7867-1950-1. $26.99; pap. ISBN 978-0-7867-1951-8. $16.99.



Inferno. Tor. Dec. 2007. c.384p. ed. by Ellen Datlow. ISBN 978-0-7653-1558-8. $25.95. HORROR



Two excellent horror offerings should chill warm-blooded readers this fall.



Award-winning sf/fantasy editor Datlow's first nonthemed collection includes 20 stories by British and Australian writers that run the gamut from the grotesque (by Joyce Carol Oates , K.W. Jeter, and Mark Samuels), to family-security worries ( Simon Bestwick , Mike Driscoll, and Nathan Ballingrud ), to horror with the classic bells and whistles ( Conrad Williams 's "Perhaps the Last"). Glen Hirshberg's "The Janus Tree" and Stephen Gallagher 's "Misadventure" offer a powerful sense of place. Much of the horror in this volume contains a bonus touch of weariness and depression. Edited by Howison, founder of the famous Los Angeles horror bookstore Dark Delicacies, and leading horror anthologist Gelb, Dark Delicacies II presents 18 fear-focused stories as well as two forewords and an afterword. Glen Hirshberg's "I Am Coming To Live in Your Mouth" is gripping and sorrowful (the author has another story in the Datlow collection); Steve Niles's "The Y Incision" is a corpse-larded tale of the dead, undead, and probably dead. Barbara Hambly's " Sunrise on Running Water" presents a deservedly imperiled vampire on the Titanic. Many of the stories here are gritty, while Datlow's selections are more literary. There is plenty of gore, however, in both volumes to satisfy horror fans. All of the stories are wisely chosen and deserve attention and comment. Both titles are recommended for all public libraries.-Jonathan Pearce, California State Univ., Stanislaus



I am, as you can imagine, a happy little bunny right now.